Wanda Wesołowska

Wanda Wesołowska (born 1950) is a Polish zoologist known for her work with arachnids. Her research focuses on the taxonomy, biology and zoogeography of jumping spiders.[1]

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Wanda Wesołowska
Born1950
NationalityPolish
EducationAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
University of Wrocław
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
InstitutionsUniversity of Wrocław
ThesisA revision of the genus Heliophanus CL Koch, 1833 (Aranei: Salticidae) (1984)

Career

Wesołowska started studying biology at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences in Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1968. Her original interest was ornithology. She achieved her MSc in Biology for her work Obserwacje ptaków wodno-błotnych zbiornika zaporowego na Wiśle pod Włocławkiem w okresie wędrówek (Observations of Wetland Birds on a Dam Reservoir on the Vistula River in Wloclawek during Migration) which was published in Acta zooogica Cracoviensia in 1973.[2]

After graduating, she took a role at what is now the University of Natural Sciences and Humanities (then Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczno-Rolnicza) in Siedlce where she developed her lifelong interest in the jumping spider family (Salticidae). She stayed at Siedlce until moving to the University of Wroclaw in 1978 to start her doctoral study. She achieved a doctorate in natural sciences in 1984 and since then has been successively an Assistant, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University. She was awarded Habilitation on the basis of her work A Revision of the Spider Genus Menemerus in Africa (Araneae: Salticidae), published in the Genus, and in 2009 was made a Professor of the institution. During her career, much of her work has involved work in Africa, including the taxonomy of Festucula, Harmochirus, Maltecora, Massagris and Menemerus, and the biodiversity of spider ecology.[3]

She is a member of the African Arachnological Society, International Society of Arachnology, Polskie Towarzystwo Taksonomiczne and Polskie Towarzystwo Zoologiczne.

Taxa named in Wesołowska's honour

Taxa described

As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following taxa described by Wesołowska:[4]

References
  1. "prof. dr hab. Wanda Wesołowska". Arachnologia Polska (in Polish). Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  2. "prof. dr. Wanda Wesołowska". Uniwersytet Wrocalski (in Polish). Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  3. Proszynski, Jerzy (2001). "Wanda Wesołowska". Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  4. World Spider Catalog (2017). "World Spider Catalog". 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
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